Shade



(No Model.)

O. H. RBES.

DEI No. 515,048. Patented Feb. 20, 1894.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES H.-FORBES, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

SHADE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 515,048, dated February20, 1894.

Application filed April 5, 1893. fierial No. 469,229. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, CHARLES H. FORBES, a citizen of the United States,residing at Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelphia and State ofPennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Shades forLamps or Gas-Burners and Electric Lights, of which the following is aspecification.

My improvement consists of a skirt made in sections or pieces that willencircle the bottom of a shallow shade. This skirt is composed of tworows of small tin plates those of the outer row arranged to overlie themeeting edges of the plates of the inner row.

The objects of my invention are to control the light and to reflect andcast or concentrate it where desired. This I do by inclosing it entirelyaround the sides, the best effect being secured by extending the bottomof the skirt about one inch below the bottom of the light and by raisingone or more sections I can cast the light where needed.

The accompanying drawing shows a tin shade with a skirt in sectionswhich are partly raised all around giving the contour of an ordinaryshade but as each sect-ion works individually it is obvious that it willconform to a great many difierent shapes.

In the accompanying drawing A is a shallow tin shade for lamps or gasburners, with a wire band encircling bottom. The under sections 13 ofthe skirt are made square and are fastened to the wire band by claspinga portion of the section around the band and securing it by solder orrivets, thus forming a hinge sufficiently tight .so that the sectionwill remain at any angle at which it may be placed. The upper sectionsor pieces 0 are made angular and hinged loosely to the wire band aboveand intermediate to lower sections B and lie loosely upon them,adjusting themselves to sections B at any angle and covering open spacebetween sections B when the skirt is spread.

The ordinary pronged holder or support in general use for lamps and gasshades and the holders used for electric light shades will be applied tothis shade.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secureby Letters Patent of the United States, is-

The combination with a lamp shade, of a sectional shade skirt composedof a double row of pivoted plates or pieces; those of the inner rowbeing movable independently of the other pieces of that row and adjustedto any desired position and those of the outer row being intermediate tothose of the inner row and adjustable therewith as described.

CHAS. H. FORBES.

Witnesses: V OWEN 'MAOKIN, GEORGE A. TUSTIN.

